bravenrace wrote: In reply to Wayslow: Looks like you plow your drive the same way I do.
Plowing is thirsty work.
bravenrace wrote: In reply to Wayslow: Looks like you plow your drive the same way I do.
Plowing is thirsty work.
I love that most 1940's automobiles are driven only to shows and on Sunday cruises, but it's nothing to see a 70 year old tractor out plowing a field the same way it did right after WWII.
Wayslow wrote:bravenrace wrote: In reply to Wayslow: Looks like you plow your drive the same way I do.Plowing is thirsty work.
Well I was referring to the back blade on the tractor, but your interpretation is also valid.
volvoclearinghouse wrote: I love that most 1940's automobiles are driven only to shows and on Sunday cruises, but it's nothing to see a 70 year old tractor out plowing a field the same way it did right after WWII.
Old tractors are cool.
In reply to volvoclearinghouse:
Theres a guy that lives just down from our implement dealer. He restores and farms with only old Olivers. 60, 70, 66, 77, 88, etc. Its neat to watch a Super 88 Diesel out running a 3-4 bottom plow or watch him harvesting with his old oliver combine(it has to be one of the few still in use) He seems to enjoy the old ways after working for Boeing for so many years.
There's a guy up the street form me that I've started taking some of my small engines to when I'm too busy to fix them myself. He also sharpens chainsaw blades, something I've no interest in doing (I am, however, very good at unsharpening them). He has a rusted out hulk of an old Sears Suburban, with bar tread tires, laying in the weeds near his shop. I'd love to drop a little horizontal shaft one-lunger into it and use it for puttering around the yard, dragging a little cart, etc. Just the way it is- all rusty.
Because, you know, I need another project.
More likely, I'll end up supplementing my John Deere 265 with something newer, 4 wheel drive with a bucket.
I gotta tell you I got a heck of a deal on my Kubota. Way under MSRP
old tracktore are cool. i remebr as a kid going out with my grandparntet to see family in iwoa and getting to drive the tracktor on thier farms.
I have a Ferguson TE20, which is basically a Ford 8N with a different motor, built after Harry Ferguson and Ford parted company. It was built in 1955 with a variant of the Standard Vanguard engine (the same one that spawned the TR3 motor), and it still starts and runs happily at -20 C (around zero furlongs per fortnight or whatever the old system was) to plough my driveway. The more common version on this side of the pond was a TO 20, with a Continental engine. The E in TE stood for England, the O for overseas, which says a lot about how the English viewed the world in those days. Of course old Harry was Irish, but that's another story.
Which reminds me, I need to rebuild the hydraulic pump before it starts snowing....
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